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In this episode, we discuss:*Why Dr. Eric Nofzinger created a company like this one to support insomnia sufferers*The concept of temperature and sleep*Does Dr. Eric Nofzinger see a real dramatic change in the layout of the architecture when the brain is cooled?*How Dr. Eric Nofzinger got to see some real market changes or amplification of certain stages throughout the night*Background on the product*Current treatments for insomnia &amp; how cooling can help    *Dr. Eric Nofzinger understanding the various brain mechanisms at rest*How people can learn more about Dr. Eric Nofzinger's product &amp; stay in touch with what he is doing about his findings:https://www.ebbsleep.com/  To learn more about Sleep Is A Skill: Website: Sleep Is A SkillSleep Reset Course: Sleep Is A SkillWeekly Newsletter: Sleep Is A SkillPodcast: Sleep Is A SkillLinkedIn: Sleep Is A SkillInstagram: Sleep Is A Skill Facebook: Sleep Is A SkillTwitter: Sleep Is A SkillPinterest: Sleep Is A SkillYouTube: Sleep Is A Skill  ACTION STEPSFed up with your sleep? Here are 5 ways I can help you transform it starting today:1. Subscribe to The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast Get guidance from experts on all things sleep! We’ve got you covered from light, darkness, temperature, sound, meals (type &amp; time), exercise, gadgets, etc. 2. Take our Free Sleep AssessmentReceive personalized feedback on where your sleep is at and what it will take to turn it around3. Check out the Sleep Is A Skill Sleep Resource RecommendationsInspired to transform your sleep but aren’t clear what sort of resources will help? These will help. 4. Join our Sleep Reset Cohort and be a Case StudyI’m putting together a new sleep cohort at Sleep Is A Skill for June... stay tuned for details. If you’d like to work with me on your sleep and health... just send me a message with the words “Case Study”. *Sleep-tracker is required.5. Book a 15 minute CallWe have something for everyone, no matter where you’re at with your sleep. Book a quick call to discuss what the next best steps are for you. 

In this episode, we discuss: *Why Dr. Eric Nofzinger created a company like this one to support insomnia sufferers *The concept of temperature and sleep *Does Dr. Eric Nofzinger see a real dramatic change in the layout of the architecture when the brain is cooled? *How Dr. Eric Nofzinger got to see some real market changes or amplification of certain stages throughout the night *Background on the product *Current treatments for insomnia &amp; how cooling can help     *Dr. Eric Nofzinger understanding the various brain mechanisms at rest *How people can learn more about Dr. Eric Nofzinger's product &amp; stay in touch with what he is doing about his findings: <a href="https://www.ebbsleep.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.ebbsleep.com/</a> To learn more about Sleep Is A Skill: <ul><li><a href="https://www.sleepisaskill.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Website: Sleep Is A Skill</a></li><li><a href="https://www.sleepisaskill.com/sleep-reset" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Sleep Reset Course: Sleep Is A Skill</a></li><li><a href="https://www.sleepisaskill.com/get-started" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Weekly Newsletter: Sleep Is A Skill</a></li><li><a href="https://www.sleepisaskill.com/podcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Podcast: Sleep Is A Skill</a></li><li><a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/mollie-mcglocklin-sleep-is-a-skill-82531825/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">LinkedIn: Sleep Is A Skill</a></li><li><a href="https://www.instagram.com/molliemcglocklin" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Instagram: Sleep Is A Skill </a></li><li><a href="https://www.facebook.com/sleepisaskill/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Facebook: Sleep Is A Skill</a></li><li><a href="https://twitter.com/SleepIsASkill" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Twitter: Sleep Is A Skill</a></li><li><a href="https://www.pinterest.com/sleepisaskill/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Pinterest: Sleep Is A Skill</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCy-IU372xapHLvXnZRbXU7A" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">YouTube: Sleep Is A Skill </a></li></ul> ACTION STEPS Fed up with your sleep? Here are 5 ways I can help you transform it starting today: 1. <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sleep-is-a-skill-podcast/id1501931597" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Subscribe</a> to The Sleep Is A Skill Podcast  Get guidance from experts on all things sleep! We’ve got you covered from light, darkness, temperature, sound, meals (type &amp; time), exercise, gadgets, etc.  2. <a href="https://beyondtells.typeform.com/to/HcUQWq" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Take</a> our Free Sleep Assessment Receive personalized feedback on where your sleep is at and what it will take to turn it around 3. <a href="https://kit.co/sleepisaskill" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Check out</a> the Sleep Is A Skill Sleep Resource Recommendations Inspired to transform your sleep but aren’t clear what sort of resources will help? These will help.  4. Join our Sleep Reset Cohort and be a Case Study I’m putting together a new sleep cohort at Sleep Is A Skill for June... stay tuned for details. If you’d like to work with me on your sleep and health... just send me a message with the words “Case Study”. *Sleep-tracker is required. 5. <a href="https://calendly.com/sleepisaskill/15min" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Book</a> a 15 minute Call We have something for everyone, no matter where you’re at with your sleep. Book a quick call to discuss what the next best steps are for you.

006: Dr. Eric Nofzinger, creator of Ebb Sleep, teaches how cooling a hyperaroused brain can help us sleep at night!

In a little bit longer intro to this episode, I talk about what’s going to happen on the pod in 2020, including more detailed show notes so you can get what’s meaningful for you out of every episode, what happened to my 2020 goals and what I hope to see for the “You’re Not Alone” Project.    The interview is with Dr. Eric Nofzinger sleep scientist &amp; founder of Ebb therapeutics.  Dr. Nofzinger has spent more than 35 years practicing sleep medicine and studying brain mechanisms of healthy sleep, insomnia, and chronic sleeplessness. He has published several clinical studies related to these topics and authored a book, Neuroimaging of sleep and sleep disorders. He earned his B.A. degrees in Chemistry and Psychology from Miami University, his M.D. degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and performed his Psychiatry training at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.    Eric determined that an inability to sleep is caused by overactivity in the frontal cortex of the brain, or "racing mind," and that this overactivity can be reduced by cooling the forehead to naturally trigger a neural network response in the brain, which quiets Racing Mind - those thoughts that keep you awake at night.   In 2019, Dr. Nofzinger launched a drug-free approach to sleeplessness - the product we’re talking about today - a wearable sleep device to help those who suffer from sleeplessness achieve more restorative sleep. The device features a headband containing a fluid that is cooled and maintained at the ideal temperature range over the course of the night, to gently bring your forehead to the perfect temperature and maintain it to help you fall into sleep – and stay there.    If you’ve listened to past episodes, you know that I struggle with sleep, so I decided to give Ebb a shot, and yes...it works. I put a picture on Instagram &amp; the show notes on my site. One of my biggest ah-ha moments from the episode was the comparison of how we rest our muscles after physical activity because of the known benefits, yet somehow, when it comes to sleep we refuse to rest and let our mos powerful muscle regenerate.    We also discuss:   Eric’s background, path through clinical psychiatry desire to be of service, and a very special class on dreaming propelled him into the world of sleep.  Why sleep could be the #1 thing you can do for your health this year.  How we need to stop treating sleep like a nuisance.   The difference between a healthy and unhealthy sleeper.  The wind-down period, deacceleration process &amp; why it’s important. The difference between insomnia &amp; sleeplessness  The groundbreaking science behind ebb &amp; the cooling of the frontal cortex.  How brain development across the life span can impact our sleep.  Plus, we talk about my night time eating and the steps we can take to have a better sleep and well, a better life. The lack of safe treatments for sleep &amp; why ebb is a powerful, natural alternative. And...at the end Dr. Nofzinger shares a moving story about the power of a good night’s sleep has on our well-being.    Learn More About Ebb:  www.ebbsleep.com www.instagram.com/ebbtherapeutics www.facebook.com/ebbtherapeutics   Stay in touch with Hailey:  www.hailey-miller.com www.instagram.com/thehaileydaily www.twitter.com/thehaileydaily_

In a little bit longer intro to this episode, I talk about what’s going to happen on the pod in 2020, including more detailed show notes so you can get what’s meaningful for you out of every episode, what happened to my 2020 goals and what I hope to see for the “You’re Not Alone” Project.  The interview is with Dr. Eric Nofzinger sleep scientist &amp; founder of Ebb therapeutics.  Dr. Nofzinger has spent more than 35 years practicing sleep medicine and studying brain mechanisms of healthy sleep, insomnia, and chronic sleeplessness. He has published several clinical studies related to these topics and authored a book, Neuroimaging of sleep and sleep disorders. He earned his B.A. degrees in Chemistry and Psychology from Miami University, his M.D. degree from The Ohio State University College of Medicine and performed his Psychiatry training at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.  Eric determined that an inability to sleep is caused by overactivity in the frontal cortex of the brain, or "racing mind," and that this overactivity can be reduced by cooling the forehead to naturally trigger a neural network response in the brain, which quiets Racing Mind - those thoughts that keep you awake at night. In 2019, Dr. Nofzinger launched a drug-free approach to sleeplessness - the product we’re talking about today - a wearable sleep device to help those who suffer from sleeplessness achieve more restorative sleep. The device features a headband containing a fluid that is cooled and maintained at the ideal temperature range over the course of the night, to gently bring your forehead to the perfect temperature and maintain it to help you fall into sleep – and stay there.  If you’ve listened to past episodes, you know that I struggle with sleep, so I decided to give Ebb a shot, and yes...it works. I put a picture on Instagram &amp; the show notes on my site. One of my biggest ah-ha moments from the episode was the comparison of how we rest our muscles after physical activity because of the known benefits, yet somehow, when it comes to sleep we refuse to rest and let our mos powerful muscle regenerate.  We also discuss:  <ul> <li>Eric’s background, path through clinical psychiatry desire to be of service, and a very special class on dreaming propelled him into the world of sleep. </li> <li>Why sleep could be the #1 thing you can do for your health this year. </li> <li>How we need to stop treating sleep like a nuisance.  </li> <li>The difference between a healthy and unhealthy sleeper. </li> <li>The wind-down period, deacceleration process &amp; why it’s important.</li> <li>The difference between insomnia &amp; sleeplessness </li> <li>The groundbreaking science behind ebb &amp; the cooling of the frontal cortex. </li> <li>How brain development across the life span can impact our sleep. </li> <li>Plus, we talk about my night time eating and the steps we can take to have a better sleep and well, a better life.</li> <li>The lack of safe treatments for sleep &amp; why ebb is a powerful, natural alternative.</li> <li>And...at the end Dr. Nofzinger shares a moving story about the power of a good night’s sleep has on our well-being.</li> </ul> Learn More About Ebb:  <a href="http://www.ebbsleep.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.ebbsleep.com</a> <a href="http://www.instagram.com/ebbtherapeutics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.instagram.com/ebbtherapeutics</a> <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ebbtherapeutics" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.facebook.com/ebbtherapeutics</a> Stay in touch with Hailey:  <a href="http://www.hailey-miller.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.hailey-miller.com</a> <a href="http://www.instagram.com/thehaileydaily" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.instagram.com/thehaileydaily</a> <a href="http://www.twitter.com/thehaileydaily_" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.twitter.com/thehaileydaily_</a>

Sleep Better by Calming Your Racing Mind with Dr. Eric Nofzinger

Insomnia is a uniquely vexing medical problem. It is the most common sleep-related issue, thought to affect around 10-40% of the population in the US. So it is a challenge that affects a whole lot of us.Yet despite its prevalence, treatments for the condition are lackluster at best. Why is this the case? Perhaps because it remains poorly understood. Insomnia has been known and documented for thousands of years, but it has proven to be difficult to study for a number of reasons. It’s hard to develop good animal models for the condition, it’s difficult to objectively define, and symptoms manifest quite differently in individuals. In order to address a complex disorder like insomnia, we need to get to the root cause. Generally speaking, it seems clear that the origin lies within the brain. This has compelled some very clever researchers to take snapshots inside the heads of patients with insomnia (via positron emission tomography, or PET), and compare them to normal controls. The results of such studies have been enlightening.And that brings me to our guest for this episode.In this episode of humanOS Radio, Dan speaks with Eric Nofzinger. Dr. Nofzinger has spent more than 35 years practicing sleep medicine and studying the neurobiology of insomnia at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.As a researcher at Pittsburgh, Dr. Nofzinger frequently interacted with patients with insomnia. They would often attribute their inability to sleep to a “racing mind.” If you’ve ever had trouble falling asleep due to incessant rumination, that characterization probably sounds pretty relatable. Furthermore, they would often claim to have hardly slept at all, even when polysomnography showed that they had experienced normal sleep.He, along with other scientists in the field, suspected that there was a biological basis for these commonly reported complaints. To gain meaningful insight into what was going on, he couldn’t just look at sleep patterns - he needed to look inside the brain. To that end, he started conducting functional imaging studies on patients with insomnia to examine patterns of brain activity and metabolism during sleep.In one such trial, subjects completed regional cerebral glucose metabolic assessments while awake and while asleep using the FDG PET method. These scans were telling. During normal healthy sleep, there are typically substantial reductions in brain activity, particularly in the frontal cortex. But imaging for individuals with insomnia painted a very different picture. Their brains remained comparatively active during sleep, particularly in the frontal cortex, and they exhibited greater cerebral glucose metabolism during sleep and while awake. So, when these people claimed that their minds were racing throughout the night - when their brains should have been resting - that was actually a remarkably accurate assessment.These kinds of studies demonstrate that insomnia is, in essence, a disorder of hyperarousal of the brain. With this revelation, what can be done to slow down the racing mind? Cooling it down. It has been known for some time that application of a cooling stimulus to the head can lower the brain temperature in the underlying cortex, and in turn reduce brain metabolism. This insight led to the development of Ebb, a sleep therapy unlike any other that has yet been invented. Here’s how it works: the device is comprised of a headband attached to a bedside unit. Cold fluid circulates through the forehead pad from the bedside unit, keeping your forehead at a cool temperature throughout the night. In this way, Nofzinger and his colleagues hope to target the root cause of insomnia, calming the mind and body.To learn more about Ebb and Dr. Nofzinger’s research, check out the interview!

Insomnia is a uniquely vexing medical problem. It is the most common sleep-related issue, thought to affect around 10-40% of the population in the US. So it is a challenge that affects a whole lot of us. Yet despite its prevalence, treatments for the condition are lackluster at best. Why is this the case? Perhaps because it remains poorly understood. Insomnia has been known and documented for thousands of years, but it has proven to be difficult to study for a number of reasons. It’s hard to develop good animal models for the condition, it’s difficult to objectively define, and symptoms manifest quite differently in individuals. In order to address a complex disorder like insomnia, we need to get to the root cause. Generally speaking, it seems clear that the origin lies within the brain. This has compelled some very clever researchers to take snapshots inside the heads of patients with insomnia (via positron emission tomography, or PET), and compare them to normal controls. The results of such studies have been enlightening. And that brings me to our guest for this episode. In this episode of humanOS Radio, Dan speaks with Eric Nofzinger. Dr. Nofzinger has spent more than 35 years practicing sleep medicine and studying the neurobiology of insomnia at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. As a researcher at Pittsburgh, Dr. Nofzinger frequently interacted with patients with insomnia. They would often attribute their inability to sleep to a “racing mind.” If you’ve ever had trouble falling asleep due to incessant rumination, that characterization probably sounds pretty relatable. Furthermore, they would often claim to have hardly slept at all, even when polysomnography showed that they had experienced normal sleep. He, along with other scientists in the field, suspected that there was a biological basis for these commonly reported complaints. To gain meaningful insight into what was going on, he couldn’t just look at sleep patterns - he needed to look inside the brain. To that end, he started conducting functional imaging studies on patients with insomnia to examine patterns of brain activity and metabolism during sleep. In one such trial, subjects completed regional cerebral glucose metabolic assessments while awake and while asleep using the FDG PET method. These scans were telling. During normal healthy sleep, there are typically substantial reductions in brain activity, particularly in the frontal cortex. But imaging for individuals with insomnia painted a very different picture. Their brains remained comparatively active during sleep, particularly in the frontal cortex, and they exhibited greater cerebral glucose metabolism during sleep and while awake. So, when these people claimed that their minds were racing throughout the night - when their brains should have been resting - that was actually a remarkably accurate assessment. These kinds of studies demonstrate that insomnia is, in essence, a disorder of hyperarousal of the brain. With this revelation, what can be done to slow down the racing mind? Cooling it down. It has been known for some time that application of a cooling stimulus to the head can lower the brain temperature in the underlying cortex, and in turn reduce brain metabolism. This insight led to the development of Ebb, a sleep therapy unlike any other that has yet been invented. Here’s how it works: the device is comprised of a headband attached to a bedside unit. Cold fluid circulates through the forehead pad from the bedside unit, keeping your forehead at a cool temperature throughout the night. In this way, Nofzinger and his colleagues hope to target the root cause of insomnia, calming the mind and body. To learn more about Ebb and Dr. Nofzinger’s research, check out the interview!

#073 - Can We Beat Insomnia by Cooling the Racing Mind? - Dr. Eric Nofzinger